Special Issues

SFR Presents the 2010 winners of our annual writing contest

Writing Contest
A cowboy searches the desert for an old man; a woodcutter loses his prey
to another hunter; a political candidate ponders deficits of all sorts.
These are the characters who populate this year’s winning...

In Brief

Local News
US Sen. Tom Udall, D-NM, has received “more than a couple hundred pieces of correspondence,” mostly from New Mexicans, conveying concerns about invasive Transportation Security Administration proced...

In Brief

Local News
Santa Fe County Clerk Valerie Espinoza is riding high from the defeat of incumbent Democrat Secretary of State Mary Herrera by Republican Secretary-elect Diana Duran, who received 57.6 percent of the vote. The ...

Something happened last night

Local News
This visualization shows the unofficial vote tally in the Nov. 2, 2010 New Mexico gubernatorial race, won by Republican Susana Martinez, alongside county by county voter registration stats. So what happened? Vi...

SFR's Picks for the Nov. 2 2010 Election

Features
While political pendulums are expected to swing, the rapid shift in the zeitgeist since 2008 is enough to give even the most sanguine of observers a bad case of whiplash. And for those of us who are less-than-s...

A former oil executive discusses why people hate oil companies, and what the country needs to do to keep the lights on

Features
Anyone expecting an apologist tone from Why We Hate the Oil Companies will be disappointed. Author John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil Co., doesn’t offer many mea culpas in his “strai...